Volkswagen aligns with Microsoft Azure in cloud push
German automaker Volkswagen AG will use Microsoft Azure to provide all future digital services and mobility offerings across its entire fleet.
German automaker Volkswagen AG will use Microsoft Azure to provide all future digital services and mobility offerings across its entire fleet.
As cars become more computerized, the vehicles are facing a greater risk of being hacked. That’s why Volkswagen is founding a new cyber security company devoted to protecting next generation cars.
Apple today released an updated list of car models that support its iPhone-mirroring API CarPlay, but the list excludes some major car makers -- at least for now.
Technology service provider, Network Professional Services, has helped its Melbourne-based customer, Essendon Volkswagen, defeat its security password issues through implementing Centrify.
The world's 19 biggest automakers <a href="https://www.globalautomakers.org/topic/privacy">have agreed to principles</a> they say will protect driver privacy in an electronic age where in-vehicle computers collect everything from location and speed to what smartphone you use.
Connected cars are big at this year's Cebit trade show, with driverless cars and products to communicate with the vehicle' onboard computers on display, but cooler apps are needed for the sector to really take off.
Protecting privacy was on the minds of almost all the dignitaries assembled in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday night to open this year's Cebit trade show, the theme of which is "datability," or big data with responsibility.
Allowing drivers to access more mobile phone apps on a dashboard display while at the wheel sounds like a recipe for disaster -- but at Mobile World Congress members of the Car Connectivity Consortium showed how they plan to do this while limiting distractions with a technology called MirrorLink.
The Super Bowl may have set a record for Twitter, but it was a tougher game for companies trying to score big on social media.
Samsung made a lot of headlines this week, though probably not for the reasons it would like.
You wouldn't buy a convertible unless you liked to show off, and in the case of the 2014 Volkswagen EOS Komfort, there's even an app for that. Volkswagen is rolling out its new Car-Net service on select 2014 models, including the EOS Komfort, with a focus on providing safety, remote access, family tracking, and diagnostics information. This information is nothing different or revolutionary compared to what you'll find on competing vendors' cars. But this is VW's first shot at it, and to the company's credit, the subscription prices (after a six-month free trial) are reasonable.
A court ban on a research paper that analyzes flaws in a car-lock system should be overturned, according to the Dutch university that employs two of the three researchers who wrote the analysis.
Crossbeam has been bought by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, opening up the door for the security company to expand its product line both in-house and via acquisitions.
Cyberspies from China have hit 760 companies, research institutions, ISPs and government agencies over the past decade, according to a <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-reflects-undeclared-global-cyber-war?category=%2Fnews%2Fmostread%2F">Bloomberg article</a> published Tuesday.